Abu Esmail Moayed-o-din Hosein-ebn-e-ali Esfahani Togharayi was an Iranian poet and scholar of the

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period. He was born in

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in 1045 A.D. Lamiye2

He had mastered all sciences of his time, and he also wrote some books about

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, such as ''Jame-ol-asrar'', ''Trakib-ol-anvar'', and ''Masabih-ol-hekmat va Mafatih-ol-rahmat'', ''Haghaegh-ol-esteshhadat'', ''Zat-ol-faraed'', and ''Alrad Ali-ebn-e-sina fi Ebtal-el-kimia''. He also participated in political works and became the minister of Masoud-ebn-Mohamad Malek Shah. Togharayi wrote a book of poems, the best known of which is ''Lamiyat al-Ajam'' (''L-Poem of the non-Arabs''). Togharayi wrote ''Lamiyyat al-Ajam'' as a response to the celebrated pre-Islamic poem '' Lāmiyyāt al-‘Arab'' (''L-Poem of the Arabs''). ''Lamiyyat al-Ajam'' was later the subject of an encyclopedic 14th-century commentary by

Al-Safadi Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī, or Salah al-Dīn al-Ṣafadī; full name - Salah al-Dīn Abū al-Ṣafa Khalīl ibn Aybak ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Albakī al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363); he was a Turkic Mamluk author and historian. ...

, entitled ''Al-Ghayth al-Musajam fi Sharh Lamiyyat-Ajam'' (''Flowing Desert Rains in the Commentary upon the L-Poem of the Non-Arabs''). Togharayi was ultimately accused of atheism, and executed in 1105 A.D. al-ajam poems, qais Abdul Shams Razi qazvini., Tehran, Iran: Tehran University publications, published 1948

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